Twitter Brainstormer: Ty Crawford Composer/Publisher: Henry North Researcher/Editor: Courey Snelling In Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, David Eagleman steps out of his neuroscience comfort zone and crafts forty stories on what it will be like once you are dead and reawaken in the afterlife. While this is all just speculation of course, the stories […]
Month: August 2015
Artful Rhetoric
Rhetoric is a brilliant form of art. Some may be questioning how this may be, and I will argue that it is art in the same manner as poetry, as music and even as spoken word. It is a verbal art and also a linguistic one. It takes a skilled rhetorician to use the power […]
The Word on Rhetoric
What is rhetoric? In most current circles, it is seen as a tool used for trickery and deceit; it is what people use to get what they want in a negative sense. In Chapter 10 of Ancient Rhetorics, rhetoric is defined by Aristotle “as the power of finding the available arguments suited to a given situation.” […]